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cant figure, except, jierhaps, a human face, which, if so intended, is 

 very indistinct. 



The most curious circumstance connected with it seems to be that 

 the stone was buried icith the inscribed .side doicnicard on the drift, 

 covered with three feet of alluvial terrace deposit, in what had once 

 been the bed of Rock River. The only place in the- neighborhood 

 where the same kind of rock is found in place is sixteen miles farther 

 up the river. 



Dr. Everett remarks that "possibly the block (of a ton weight) may 

 have been brought down in the ice and inscribed on the spot to mark 

 the site of a battlefield, for both above and below, for a distance of 

 three miles, there are numerous mounds containing immense quanti- 

 ties of human Ijones, usually indiscriminately Ijuried and sometimes 

 partiallv burned." 1 learn that no relics or weapons are found there, 

 except an occasional arrow head, one of which, b}^ the way, was 

 found still sticking in a skull. Dr. Everett has both skull and arrow 

 in his office. 



Exploration of a 3Iouiicl on the Allen Farm. 



liY A\'. H. PRATT. 



On September oth, 1<S79, Mr. Gass, Mr. Lindley, Mr. Christian and 

 myself went down to Col. Allen's farm to explore the one remaining 

 mound of that group.* 



At a depth of about four feet, we found four skulls in a badly 

 decayed and broken condition, so that they could not be preserved, 

 and a portion of the other bones, but so few as to make it probable that 

 but a portion of the four skeletons had ever been buried there. One 

 piece of lower jaw, quite a number of the long bones, and a few of 

 the others, were found, — but no vertebrae or ribs. The skeletons 

 were lying nearly in an east and west direction, heads westward. 



The only lelics were a poor discoidal stone, two fragments of stone 

 implements and twT) small copper beads made of very thin, appa- 

 rently hammered, copper. 



There were no ashes or charcoal in any portion of the mound, no 

 charred wood or bones, and no traces whatever of the action of fire. 



This completes the exploration of that prominent group, all of 

 which have, I believe, been thoroughly examined and rei)orted. 



We have recently received, by the kindness of Col. R. M. Lit- 



* See these Proceedings, Vol. II, pp. 148 nnd 154. 



